While media members fawn over Hollywood productions about manmade global warming such as Al Gore's schlockumentary "An Inconvenient Truth" and Leonardo DiCaprio's box office disaster "The Eleventh Hour," they should take time out of their busy propagandist schedules to view a lecture that Australian research professor Bob Carter recently gave.
In fact, it should be required viewing for any member of the press who wants to report about climate change, for it more thoroughly and concisely explains the science refuting the current alarmism than anything to date.
During the roughly 37-minute lecture given at the Annual Conference of the Australian Environmental Foundation on September 8th in Melbourne (luckily caught on videotape, multiple links to follow), Carter debunked the hysterical claims regularly espoused by warm-mongers such as:
- Today's temperatures deviate from historical norms
- Today's temperatures will cause extinctions
- Today's temperatures are caused by rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.
In fact, and not to give too much away, one of Carter's rather startling observations is that a greater threat to mankind moving forward is the cooling trend that has likely already started, and that all this hysteria over a nominal warming period is distracting us from preparing for the colder temperatures destined to come.
As an added bonus, although the contents are highly scientific and, at times complicated, viewers will appreciate Carter's candid, personable delivery, as well as his sense of humor.
As such, without further ado, I strongly recommend NewsBusters readers take about a half-hour of their time to fully understand just how absurd the media's claims of imminent doom at the hands of global warming are.
Enjoy: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters. Follow him at Facebook and Twitter.
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Today's temperatures will
Sun, 11/04/2007 - 19:56 ET by motherbeltToday's temperatures will cause extinctions
Every time I see a claim that says something like: "every year 1000 species become extinct...I want to know WHO goes out and counts every darn species on earth (how many millions are there?) and keeps track, year after year.
And how many places do they have to look before they decide that a species has "disappeared"?
I also seem to recall
Sun, 11/04/2007 - 20:52 ET by MikeBI also seem to recall stories about new species being discovered recently. Note that they have not recently sprung into being (they've been here right along), but that they've been recently discovered. They just haven't been noted up until now. So, how can someone prove that a species is now extinct? Yes, I accept that the dodo and the passenger pigeon and other species have indeed become extinct. That doesn't mean that every species that the alarmists are claiming are extinct haven't simply moved to a better habitat.
"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan
I've started asking for the
Mon, 11/05/2007 - 07:35 ET by danboI've started asking for the names of the thousands of species that have gone extinct. I've yet to get an answer. I finally found one link of species that went extinct due to man. But it claims only about 250 going back to 1600 or so; but lists only about 60. None that I saw were caused by climate changes. A number by hunting. Poisioning. A few by changes in land use. There are also a number of extinct species; for whom there are a lot of reports of recent sightings. As the Ivory Billed Woodpecker and the Javanese tiger.
"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT
NBC Football Green Night
Sun, 11/04/2007 - 20:15 ET by pbdmillerGad, NBC Football night in America is having green night by turning stadium lights off. But then again, Chris Collinsworth looks much better in the dark!
Yep
Sun, 11/04/2007 - 21:52 ET by scamorama"Green is Universal"
I saw that and about choked. Matt Lauer is talking now about how warm it is -- standing on a glacier and noticeably shaking with cold.
What a moron.
Half-time at a football
Mon, 11/05/2007 - 07:45 ET by ahusserHalf-time at a football game and they have an Arctic Circle segment? Sorry I couldn't watch any more and turned the game off. Maybe this insanity is peaking. I certainly hope so 'cause otherwise this mass delusion is going to cost us a lot of real money. Hopefully (like Mars attacks) the liberal heads will explode before then. Now if only I could yodel.
Funny, Olbermann looks normal
Sun, 11/04/2007 - 21:53 ET by RJsort of goulish....
Olby's natural condition
Sun, 11/04/2007 - 21:58 ET by nkviking75Olby's natural condition is being in the dark, so none of this should matter to him.
When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.
Hope John Madden doesn't eat Al Michaels by mistake.
Sun, 11/04/2007 - 21:58 ET by Dave RI mean, in the dark and all.
I'm watching the game, and
Sun, 11/04/2007 - 23:51 ET by GregEI'm watching the game, and when this takes place, I say outloud, in a room by myself, regarding NBC......"what a bunch of freakin idiots!" Yes, let's ram the undebatable human-caused climate change bull crap down everyone's throat. And let's even get this big football audience with it. These people are morons. "Green" is stupid.
Ever notice that none of these climate change nuts ever ever ever mentions that reducing our use of fossil fuels would be good because it reduces our dependence on an area of the world that is hugely unstable and produces mass numbers of terrorists which are funded with much of the fossil fuel money? Heck no they don't care a lick about that. The don't even recognize it. Why not take that on as one angle? That's an angle that I'll jump on the bandwagon for, because that angle is a true consensus. Well, maybe not to the lib. Why is it just about climate? Liberalism is like an idiocy farm.
I'm pretty sure
Sun, 11/04/2007 - 20:22 ET by RainsfordI'm pretty sure enviromentalist protection policies, like not allowing coal plants and forcing people to deforest whole regions, have caused many more species to die off then any slight temperature change ever could.
Good point, Rainsford. Another example is the ethanol craze,
Sun, 11/04/2007 - 20:32 ET by RJwhich is causing rainforests to be cut down in order to grow palm oil for making ethanol.
Observation
Sun, 11/04/2007 - 21:00 ET by Lame CherryI was just wondering as this builds who will get the credit as the
hero who saved the world from flat world hysteria designed to enslave humanity to the elite.
I know my work will never get a nod from those communists at the Nobel........but will Rush Limbaugh even be given credit or his oft quote Dixie Lee Ray I believe it was who was exposing this nonsense before her death.
So many vocal and massive hits are being heaped on the milk toast liberals and their global warming showing it is a farce and great percentages of people.........(I was attacked here for stating published British reports that 70% of Brits know global warming is a sham).......know this is but a power grab, it should only be until Al Gore runs his 2008 gambit before this too passes the way of nuclear winter.
Who though will be the chirper who warns of water and food shortages as the cartel have that in store next.
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Global warming | Weather
Sun, 11/04/2007 - 21:04 ET by JDWNews media and ewackos just cannot lay off the hurricanes.
TWN- Tropical storm Noel knocks out power along Massachusetts coast
Take a minute and query Noel. Find a headline which does not include hurricane. They all do.
...South Florida was drenched with heavy rain and suffered beach erosion before Noel began its assault along the eastern seaboard. After a brief stint as Hurricane Noel, the storm lost much of its wind strength but continued to pound away with wind gusts strong enough to snap branches and power lines and cause flooding throughout the Cape Cod region. ...
News media/libs/Hollywood...; Global warming is creating hurricanes which are destroying the world. If one checks the number of hurricanes which have occurred over the course of the past two years the number is next to nothing. In fact scientists are telling us we need more in order to distribute the temperatures of the ocean more evenly.
Libs ignore facts and one thing to always keep in mind is that Mother Nature knows bet.
JDW
Sen Clinton: Founder of Media Matters
JDW
Sun, 11/04/2007 - 21:09 ET by Noel SheppardJDW,
Hurricane Noel suggests you should change your tag to "Proud Founder of Media Matters." :-) ns
Unaware
Sun, 11/04/2007 - 21:23 ET by JDWI didn't realize I was posting in your blog. Did you consider that?
JDW
Sen Clinton: Founder of Media Matters
JDW
Sun, 11/04/2007 - 22:10 ET by Noel SheppardJDW,
Consider that? I'm wearing it.
I think this might have gotten lost in translation. I like your tagline concerning Hillary. However, I thought it might be better, and more of a statement, if it read "Sen. Clinton: Proud Founder of Media Matters."
Just seems a bit stronger and ironic in my view. ns
I Know
Sun, 11/04/2007 - 23:10 ET by JDWCannot link to profile after writing so I simply posted and changed afterwards.
In light of the fact that she attempted to back out of admitting to creating the .org I used 'distinguished'.
JDW
Sen Clinton: Distinguished Founder of Media Matters
Though Hurricane Noel has
Mon, 11/05/2007 - 07:48 ET by danboThough Hurricane Noel has been blowing down the enviro house of cards for a while.
This weekend I heard a bad report on the storm. The report I heard was of winds pushing 50 mph.
Sorry. It's hard for me to take a storm with 50 mph winds very serious.
On the good note. The 2007 hurricane season may become the quietest since 1977.
"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT
Is this one of the
Sun, 11/04/2007 - 21:59 ET by LighthouseJIs this one of the near-future charter programs of the Clinton Reeducation plan?
"Boats are safe in the harbor, but that's not what they're made for." -- Maritime quote
thanks Noel
Sun, 11/04/2007 - 21:59 ET byno doubt the NFL should watch it also
GoHunter08
Video
Sun, 11/04/2007 - 22:07 ET by saw the lightWell worth the 30 odd minutes it took to watch it. Too bad Professor Carter's lecture will only be seen by like-minded people. Those on the left, on the global-warming bandwagon (undoubtedly pedal powered!) have declared the debate over. Their reaction to anything that counters their untenable position is to cover their ears like my four-year-old and pretend the truth is not there.
There is no there there, is there?
"There is a tendency for the world to say to America, 'the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out,' and then to worry when America wants to sort them out." - Tony Blair
Beware Of Even Numbers
Sun, 11/04/2007 - 22:34 ET by Intellectual HonestyEvery time I see a claim that says something like: "every year 1000 species become extinct...I want to know WHO goes out and counts every darn species on earth (how many millions are there?) and keeps track, year after year.
Just as a rule of thumb I am always weary (particuarly if the source leans left) of even numbers when used in statistics. 25% of children go to bed hungry. 100 million Iraqi civilian deaths. 20 million illegal aliens. 1,000 species become extinct every year. Etc.
These are figures, numbers given for easy consumption and consequently easy repetition. Mainly from the left, sometimes from the right, these are often "code statistics" that give a "fact" that any idiot can repeat but invariably cannot expand upon.
That video was well worth
Sun, 11/04/2007 - 23:22 ET by GrammyThat video was well worth the time to watch it.
Is there a transcript available anywhere?
It drives me absolutely nuts that the computer modeling these scaremongers use CAN NOT predict the known from the known and that is irrelevant to their followers. It is more a religion than anything else. Their god of CO2 and their High Priest Algore is more powerful than the entire universe and the cosmic influences on the world is.
Grammie
-
Mon, 11/05/2007 - 07:48 ET by dahliatraversthe computer modeling these scaremongers use CAN NOT predict the known from the known
That's right, that's one of the major flaws in the evidence for AGW.
I posted the videos on a
Mon, 11/05/2007 - 00:01 ET by Sonny LykosI posted the videos on a contractors web site forum and weeks ago the #1 advocate for man made warming said we should only consider 'scientists. Now for him, marine biologists are not considered "real" scientists.
And of course, him and another guy attacked the messenger instead of the message because they cold not dispute the message. Typical liberals, eh?
Great videos! I especially
Mon, 11/05/2007 - 08:15 ET by WhoIsJohnGaltGreat videos! I especially liked the point made by partying polar bears (who supposedly would have died out from previous historical global warming trends several times, if AlGore is right in his hysterical alarmism).
one of Carter's rather
Mon, 11/05/2007 - 10:25 ET by dscottone of Carter's rather startling observations is that a greater threat to mankind moving forward is the cooling trend that has likely already started, and that all this hysteria over a nominal warming period is distracting us from preparing for the colder temperatures destined to come.
Given the current group doublethink going on with the AGW cultists, bureaucrats and MSM, they will be denying anything is running against their predictions this winter when we get more heavy snows and another colder than normal winter. In their convoluted logic, it will be George W Bush's fault. Now let's add to that scenerio Iran and Venezuela jacking up the price of oil by sabre rattling and threatening neighboring countries just in time for the winter heating season, anyone want to guess what happens next???? I suggest strongly you buy lots of thermal socks and blankets, I doubt you are going to afford the price of natural gas, oil or electricity this winter unless you are Al Gore with a $100 million in the bank. You can thank the econuts and Dems for blocking oil and gas drilling and blocking coal fired electric plants.
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. dscott's corollary: The line between malice and stupidity is called depraved indifference.
that's an easy one...
Mon, 11/05/2007 - 11:29 ET by wizardjrthe answer to that is too easy - the fascists will always claim to be saving us - it's their destiny (to rule)
Since we've had no warming since 1998 and likely have started a cooling episode (too quiet sun like the Maunder Minimun) they'll just ignore the fact that they were 180 out from reality and somehow blame it on the Global Cooling caused by the Global Warming and that they (still) are the only salvation.
As Arte Johnson used to say on Laugh-In: "Vee haf vays to make you comply!"
sorry, was supposed to be reply to lame cherry
Mon, 11/05/2007 - 11:33 ET by wizardjrI messed up the hook to lame cherry above, sorry 'bout that